THE FLYING MEN.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11961, 12 December 1919, Page 8

THE FLYING MEN.

ROSS SMITH’S ACHIEVEMENT,

Received Dec 12, noon. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. London, Dec 11 in the Commons, Mr Churchill confirmed the news of Ross Smith’s arrival and offered congratulations, amid cheers. In the Lords, Lord Montague mentioned the matter and said it marked an epoch in the history of the Air Force. PARER’S PROPOSED PLIGHT. Received Dec 12 , noon y London Dec 10 Parer hopes to start his Australian flight about the 20t1i. He hasjabandoned cabled planes and secured a De Haviland machine fitted with a 80-horse power six-cylinder Siddeley Puma engine, with a cruising speed of 90 miles an hour and a range of 1000 miles. The machine is similar to those used in the London-Paris mail service* Lieutenant J. M. Mclntosh, formerly of Bridgetown, accompanies Parer, having secured a commission in the Royal Air Force at his own request in lieu of payment for inventing the aerial ground shrapnel bombs, which the War Office • accepted in October 1918, when too late for use in the war.